THE EUROPEAN QUAIL. 
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left to run about in a light room, except during the night, but 
continually when in a darkened cage. 
When wild, the quail is found throughout the eastern conti¬ 
nent. It is a bird of passage, arriving in Europe in May, and 
taking its departure at the end of September. 
FOOD. 
In a »vild state, the quail feeds on wheat and other corn, 
rape seed, millet, hemp seed, and the like. It also eats green 
vegetables, as well as insects, and particularly ants’ eggs. 
In the house, it is fed on the same food, adding bread, barley 
meal, mixed with milk, the universal paste, and occasionally 
salad or cabbage, chopped up small, and, that it may want 
nothing to keep it in health, plenty of river sand for it to roll 
in and peck up grains, which assist its digestion; but this 
I sand must be 
4 great deal, ai 
damp, for if dry, it will not touch it. It drinks a 
id the water, contrary to the opinion of some 
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